skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'm saying: you're not sending "your data" off device. You are sending a homomorphically encrypted locally differentially private vector (through an anonymous proxy). No consumer can really understand what that means, what the risks are, and how it would compare to the risk of sending someone like Facebook/Google raw data.

I'm asking: what does an opt in for that really look like? You're not going to be able to give the user enough info to make an educated decision. There's ton of risk of "privacy washing" ("we use DP" but at very poor epsilon, or "we use E2E encryption" with side channel data gathering).

There's no easy answer. "ask the user", when the question requires a phd level understanding of stats to evaluate the risk isn't a great answer. But I don't have another one.
There's a difference between layoffs and firing. To fire an individual, the company must have documentation to ensure it's not a wrongful termination. Ironically, it's easier to lay-off 100 people because all you need to do is demonstrate their division's project is cancelled.

And that documentation takes time as a manager, which costs money.

But I admit not knowing completely because I haven't had to fire anyone yet. I have talked to legal about the process regarding someone not on my team.
I hate this type of lukewarm take.

"Ah, I see you care about privacy, but you own a phone! How hypocritical of you!"
Thank-you. Also found your article on C and discipline helpful:

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/why-i-use-c-when-i-believe-i...

If I could go back, I would have started working in C and building (reinventing) all the other ideas. Building your own language and compiler surely is the just fruits of an earnest programming life.

It's not unlike plain Javascript where code patterns become the unit of work [1][2], where keywords in other languages would otherwise suffice.

The shelves have books on C and Deitel, hacking, drawing, and architecture too. I hope some of them sort of combine. I don't know the recipe to bring about a kernel hacker, but hope it can all be absorbed in a decade or two.

[1] Reliable Javascript (2015)

[2] Javascript Patterns (2010)
I will add another reference: Photos of stained windows across churches https://www.gettyimages.se/fotografier/catholic-church-stain... The new designs keep the tradition of depicting people in stained glass
Those people generally didn’t care about audio quality, YouTube for me seems synonymous with unreliable bit rates and disorganisation.
me? No. Ex trainee neruopsychologist and failed academic who was in the right place at the right time back in the mid 90s who didn't pick up computers for professional interest until the mid-late 2000s after getting excited by Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon when I was looking for a career change. These days I identify as an international computer hacker, but mainly to take the piss (due to the tiny element of truth sitting underneath)
I am not OP; my simple point is that I don’t really care how “people” interpret my comments, and I will continue to write for those who _are_ clever enough to comprehend my intent (which one might imagine most people on this forum to be).
The counter argument is that firing too slowly can be a serious drag on morale. Leaving your team to carry dead weight can really suck for the team.

Ask me how I know... :)
They brought back the weapons training program they had in communist times which is just weapons assembly and disassembly. They don't even shoot them which seems like it misses the point the firearms.
I think just having a proper runtime for elisp would be great...

I am a guile person, but even if the Emacs folks would only allow elisp on guile it would still be a win.
And that doesn’t help with internally stored data within apps, settings, which apps you have installed on what screen, passwords, etc
Sorry but that doesn’t match reality.

Yes, in public Biden and the state department expressed some disapproval, said they’d look into it, etc. That was assuage angry public sentiment. But the whole time they went out of their way to send billions in weapons to Israel. They didn’t do a single thing in practice to end the genocide. (Unlike Reagan who got Israel to stand down with a single phone call) Furthermore Biden is an avowed Zionist and I would even assume Islamophobe.
Those are great in a professional context, but the CC3200s never had a <$10 Chinese breakout board.

And they're programmed in IAR or CCS instead of in the Arduino IDE, and they're programmed with an RTOS and the Cortex M4's powerful ISR engine instead of just a "while" loop.

ESP32/ESP8266 are basically optimized to be hobbyist-friendly, while most other wireless systems are not.
Hallucination of closed repeat proteins containing central pockets (2023)
The NSA, the CCP, etc. depending on jurisdiction. (joking, but not really)
I just want one to use as a MIDI keyboard.

I’m a tracker kid. Jeskola Buzz ftw. Give me velocity-sensitive QWERTY and I will finally be complete.
All that and a single paragraph about ergonomic split keyboards? What a shame. Imo, the main reasons to get into mech keyboards are customization and programmability. This subreddit is a good starting point: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/
I do think it would be bad if that happened, and there's been talk about it with a proposal to separate JS "syntax" and a JS "core", almost treating JS like assembly. We have WebAssembly for that purpose. I just think using extra type checking tools is ideal when you're working on large scale projects using a dynamically typed scripting language. The real tragedy is writing large scale projects in a scripting language, but that's just the world we live in when browsers are dominant.
At this point, Mac Mini M4's are cheap enough and capable enough to just purchase two: one for off-line use, another on-.

Perhaps this is marketing genius (from an AAPL-shareholder POV)?

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I'm laughing at the insanity of all this interconnectivity, but an NDA prevents me from typing the greatest source of my ironic chuckles. Described in an obtuse way: a privacy-focused hardware product ships with an undisclosed phone-home feature, letting the feds see every time you use the product (to produce a controversial product, at home).

Kick in my fucking door / sue me: it'll just re-enforce that I'm correct about concessionary-allowances...
Henry Ford had the best insight into charity: real charity is work you do yourself or money you give directly to people affected or by doing work that makes the whole world better. Fake charity is giving it to orgs that never want to actually solve the underlying issue or everyone loses their job.
It seems apple might be using it for live caller id lookup?
> Modernist tomfoolery; we’ll break even international conventions on historical preservation for the sake of a moral anyone can learn by watching a Disney movie.

What are you on?

You could, I don't know, actually look at the use of stained glass in churches and seen that the new windows fit squarely in the tradition of Catholic Church: https://www.gettyimages.se/fotografier/catholic-church-stain...

Not to mention that the current glass from the 19th century was literally put there by "the father of modern/modernist architecture"
It's a very preferential opinion because keyboards can be such a personal thing. I used the Nuphy Air75 v2 for a week, and it is the best keyboard that I've ever used. I really like that particular layout: Ctrl Opt Cmd,the arrow keys tucked into the right Shift key and the Del key just to the right of the Backspace key.
https://nuphy.com/products/air75-v2?variant=40635218133101
For some reason the result page keeps reloading indefinitely, and it renders the site unusable on Brave/iOS :(
Chesss960 doesn't have "slightly different rules" than chess, it's a variant where all the pieces are randomnly positioned at the start of each match... It's basically playing a completely different game, and one the FIDE has absolutely zero interest in. Freestyle and FIDE organization are not in competition.
Then Intel is going to have to wait for a very long time. At best, China is currently in a scenario similar to Japan's lost decade of 30 years or US's Great Depression. At worst, China's current deflation + massive debt seems eerily similar to Weimar Germany's early internal devaluation. China is pretty fucked.
It’s not just the zeitgeist. It’s problematic when relatively junior employees start to overtake more senior employees on salary (because word will go around). And raising everyone’s salaries often isn’t an option either, obviously.
Would recommend to just try their 100 free searches.
Their results are good, but it’s hard to have an objective measure. For me, it’s the little features that make it worth it (and that they have a forum for feature requests, and a proper changelog).
I would say that the feature set is pretty powerful as is, and it shows in the earlier history (having worked with Mixins since before it was called Mixins). The history reaches further back than the first commit to having been developed for Mumfrey's own modloader (LiteLoader).

As someone else already replied, Mumfrey still practices private development and only pushes new code after his own extensive testing. He has long periods of "public" inactivity because code refactors and other changes can be delicate given the widespread usage of the library within the Minecraft modding ecosystem, and as such, he doesn't want the distraction that in-development can attract from said community.
Luck is an interesting way of phrasing what can be simply described as pure neurological deficiencies. Your opponents brain forgot to go down a crazy sacrifice line which was actually M6. Is that luck?

Or is it a comparative grey matter evaluation in time and pressure constraints?
I had no idea that there was a NeovimConf! It's kind of a shame that it's so low in the search rankings that searching directly for it seemed to turn up only hits for Neovim configuration files, so I hope that I may be forgiven for linking here: https://neovimconf.live .
> not have things like healthcare tied to my job which only seems feasible by leaving the country

You probably won't get state-provided health insurance the moment you move in, without a job, anywhere. Though a lot of countries won't let you die, you will assume more cost than you think (or be deported back).
"I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life."

- Warren Buffett
You’re describing Matt Bors’ Mister Gotcha.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
But Google would do just as well (probably better) without the SEOs, no? The SEOs are just manipulating the order of search results to their own interests, but I don't see how this would benefit Google's bottom line.
I found this to be a pretty poor article. The article lacks concrete examples and speaks in generalities to explain its core thesis. But without specificity, a reader can nod along, sure in the knowledge that they already are wise and follow this advice and it's everyone else who's out there mucking up code bases with layers upon layers of garbage. I mean,

> The next time you reach for an abstraction, ask yourself: Is this truly simplifying the system? Or is it just another layer of indirection?

Is anyone reading this truly going to alter their behavior? If I could recognize that my abstraction was "just another layer of indirection" as simple as that, obviously I wouldn't have added it in the first place!
> Legion is research (where _future_ products originate)

my drawings of spaceships are also where future spaceships come from. it's plausible right? therefore my drawings of spaceships are valuable right?

> Would you care to share the names of some software/hardware engineers worthy of emulation by academia

sorry that was a mistype - i meant to say no one in the industry cares either. engineers in the industry do understand things because they're working on the things every day.
Just a thought - Circular keycaps exist, and by definiton have more space between them. They presumably have the same _minimum_ gap at the left and right, though, so might not work.

https://keycapsnation.com/products/round-keycaps
It's disappointing that the younger generations have developed such intolerant views on this issue.

There's nothing wrong with a man wearing a dress, just like there's nothing wrong with women wearing trousers and shirts. The real problem is if the man in a dress, and his associates, try to strongarm everyone into pretending he's a woman, and in doing so negatively impact on free speech and women's rights.

Somehow this message has been lost and we're back to reinforcing gender stereotypes again. It's very unfortunate.
I believe that the Neovim Kickstart project gives you Telescope as the fuzzy finder. (The YouTube video by TJ is linked in the README.)

https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
Holy crap! Enabled by default! Thank you for letting everyone know.

“Enhanced Visual Search in Photos allows you to search for photos using landmarks or points of interest. Your device privately matches places in your photos to a global index Apple maintains on our servers. We apply homomorphic encryption and differential privacy, and use an OHTTP relay that hides IP address. This prevents Apple learning about the information in your photos. You can turn off Enhanced Visual Search at any time on your iOS or iPadOS device by going to Settings > Apps > Photos. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General.”
"... it's clear how an individualist and a collectivist would answer."

It should be clear that most countries and individuals are not strictly individualist or collectivist --- they're some combination of both.

Casting it as a strictly black or white choice is not reflective of reality.
I am extremely happy with the new Keychron K2 HE (https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k2-he-wireless-ma...) and am surprised hall effect keyboards didn't get mentioned in the original post. Even if the advantages are more gamer-oriented, setting low actuation distances and getting immediate keypress response is also a productivity plus, after getting practice to avoid making typos when you'd normally lay your fingers on other keys.

The one-key-multiple-actions is useful but also does require some muscle memory tweaks.
No I am trying to say with a connected device using online services, the service provider is going to have access to your data that you use to interact with them.

To a first approximation, everyone in 2024 expects their data and settings to be transferred across devices.

People aren’t working as if it is 2010 when you had to backup and restore devices via iTunes. If I’m out of town somewhere and my phone gets lost, damaged or stolen, I can buy another iPhone, log into my account and everything gets restored as it was.

Just as I expect my watch progress to work when I use Netflix between my phone, iPad, Roku devices etc.
> Blow up gas pipeline: good! Cut a cable: terrorism!

Straw men. The point is both have happened.
The Guardian should not be cited or used much on HN due to its extreme and obvious bias.
That Nordstream pipeline is/was owned by Russia.
Any reason to not go with column-stagger? It felt good immediately after a decade on traditional row-stagger keyboards.
A universal track id number combined with m3u?
Nope - I work a lot with the Yocto project.
No, your photos aren't sent, also not 'pieces' of it. They are creating vector data which can be used to create searchable vectors which in turn can be used on-device to find visual matches for your search queries (which are local).

You can imagine it as hashes (created locally), some characters of that hash from some random positions being used to find out if those can be turned into a query (which is compute intensive so they use PCC for that). So there is no 'data' about what it is, where it is or who it is. There isn't even enough data to create a picture with.

Technically, everything could of course be changed, heck, Apple could probably hire someone with binoculars and spy on you 24/7. But this is not that. Just like baseband firmware is not that, and activation is not that, yet using them requires communication with Apple all the same.
Your second paragraph is exactly the point made in the article as the reason why it should be an informed choice and not something on by default.
I don't know if this was a Musk addition, but that's one of the few good things I've heard about new Twitter lol. I guess they realized the format of the website required people to be able to better self-segregate; a real challenge for sites without clear borders across communities like Reddit has.
The fastest that I can possibly fire somebody is still months from the date I choose to hire them.

I decide they are the best candidate. A recruiter talks with them to negotiate compensation and they accept the offer. This takes a week at best, but can take weeks if they are choosing between multiple offers. Then they choose a start date. They've got a couple weeks at the old job, plus probably some time in between roles before they start. So 2-6 weeks waiting here. Then they join and go through the company-wide onboarding and training processes and set up their equipment. Another week.

The first time I actually get to have them do any work is 4-10 weeks from the date I chose to offer them a job. It now takes me some time to realize they are hopeless and misrepresented themself on their resume. Three weeks would be an extraordinary outcome here, but it more likely that this takes 8+ weeks. Even if the actual process of firing them is instant once I've decided that it was a bad hire, I'm still out 3-5 months from the date I chose to hire them. Any other strong candidates I had in the pipeline now have other jobs and I am starting from scratch.

That is incredibly expensive.
Obviously your field is in no demand at all. Otherwise, why would you be searching for employment if you are #1 in it?
I also need to configure which "plugins" I want whenever I install regular Visual Studio. In fact you can't really even start using it before that initial setup window. The time it takes to install and configure a plugin on vscode, for example, is basically 0 for most languages and platforms.
> Obama made the mistake of asking Congress for authorisation

Obama certainly didn't bother with as much when offing Al-Awlaki [1]. (An American who took up arms against the United States.)

This was Obama's fuck-up. He was the chief executive and commander in chief. If he couldn't hold the line, he shouldn't have drawn it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...
>It boils down to "everyone might be miserable, but someone else is getting rich so it's good."

Aren't Scandinavian people statistically the happiest? That's not anglo culture.
As a side note, for a person with a decade of experience in IT, its currently taking roughly 1500 applications per pre-screen interview to give you an idea where the market is at today (and over the past 2 years with the mass adoption of AI).

Less than 1/100th of 1%.

You should also see what I had to say about the history of slavery, and wage slaves, and what anyone can expect from them. The TL;DR is that what you are looking for no longer exists if it ever did, because you have adopted a scorched; salt the earth strategy for finding labor.

What you call lazy, may actually be incredibly hard working (given the current environment) to even get to the point where you see them. Is it their fault you didn't recognize them for the value they could potentially provide? If you pay wages comparable to an office assistant for skilled labor, why do you expect to get anything more than what that first role provides? The economics of things are important.

You need to re-calibrate unreasonable expectations (delusions) back to some more close to reality.
And his freestyle performance was clearly shoulders ahead his peers
Have you ever experienced vim being slow? If so, would you know how I could reproduce this?
For someone who may have illegally obtained his green card/citizenship https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/insights/legal/immigrat...
he is pretty vocal about what other countries should or shouldn't be doing. Immigrants are a top issue for AfD.
> most of them claim to be white males

There’s really no need to call this out repeatedly as if something sinister is happening. Despite ongoing efforts, the overwhelming majority of tech workers are… white males. So yes, the largest number of voices complaining about joblessness are unsurprisingly going to be white males.
Thanks for this! I use a Perrix 835 and I'm quite happy with it except that the keys are rubbing raw and I need new key caps. But I'm always looking to trade up if possible.
People losing weight are probably eating more than 2000 per day to begin with. But if you go from 2800 down to 1500 you’re already likely to exceed 3 lbs of weight loss per week that is recommended without doctor supervision. If you need to lose more than 150 lbs in a year because you’re well past morbid obesity then you need staff, not just a food plan.
yes its rust. Looks like you're right. Well is back to good old emacs for me!
People who marry and live in the same home with their biological children are by far the happiest and most successful by all kinds of measures.
abstraction for abstraction’s sake? pure abstraction? abstracted abstraction?
Vscode uses LSP, and for most mainstream languages it can provide refactoring, definition lookup, symbol renaming, etc.
Do they have choc versions? All I'm seeing is MX... though google's fu has grown weak so it might just be that it's being drowned out by Drop at the moment.
It's lucky for some people that I'm not hiring right now, because I'd probably perma-denylist anyone I caught sending me LLM-generated text, especially for something that's supposed to be one-to-one, like a cover letter/email.

That is such a obvious imminent plague upon society, in so many ways, and the only thing I can do is nip the few buds that are within my reach.
There's two distinct reasons why more qualified candidates might get skipped over:

1) There is too much noise occluding their signal.

2) There is a form of gatekeeping going on.

Gatekeeping only really works in exploitative systems (e.g. "me and my children are the masters, and you and your children are the slaves") or when the noise is so high that companies wouldn't gain much from not gatekeeping (e.g. Harvard admissions in the late 1800s).

So, if you don't exist in an exploitative system, providing more signal is going to both benefit deserving candidates and punish gatekeeping companies. I don't see why a reputation score would increase gatekeeping.

At the end of the day, every applicant could be ranked on their ability at the job. Wouldn't it be best for everyone—companies and prospective employees—to know where they rank up, so they don't waste time applying to hundreds of jobs or sifting through hundreds of applications?

The only people who are hurt are the hustlers: people who spend far more time hustling for a position than gaining the skills needed to do well in that position. Their goal is the extreme limit of noise, where success rate is directly proportional to how many applications are filled out, and I have no sympathy for the destruction of the commons (that I have to live in).
a company would run this… Not your company taking over candidate’s computer, an intermediary that candidate and potential employer are using.

candidates are already using Slack/Teams/Zoom/… now they get to use Pouixy or whatever BS name someone in SF comes up with. guarantee you this will be a thing in 2025, some stanfords are on the case
The worst part is Germany as usual. Had to change some trains with buses on Gdansk-Berlin route.

Other than that it was quite good and on schedule. I’ve used railpass so it was also cheap enough.

My longest voyage was Moscow-London back in the days when Moscow-Berlin and Moscow-Paris trains existed (pre-covid).
that ship has sailed. companies already get 100s of applications for every job post even without candidates automating applications.